[HN Gopher] Modular Cognition
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       Modular Cognition
        
       Author : the-mitr
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-03-20 08:04 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (aeon.co)
        
       | smegsicle wrote:
       | pretty fun talk by the same guy:
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       | What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the
       | Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018
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       | https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg
        
         | mateo1 wrote:
         | That's absolutely incredible, thank you for posting it.
        
       | jorgeleo wrote:
       | Not really following this article:
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       | "Likewise, if two mouse embryos are mushed together like a
       | snowball, a single, normal mouse results"
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       | And
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       | "This is intelligence in action: the ability to reach a
       | particular goal or solve a problem by undertaking new steps in
       | the face of changing circumstances"
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       | I write software that can account for changes in context and
       | still reach a particular goal. This is not new, creating TCP from
       | UDP where the network can constantly be changing is not something
       | that I will call "Intelligent". The guy(s) that created the
       | original algorithm are, but the network packets themselves are
       | not.
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       | There are differences between intelligence and just following
       | well crafted procedures.
        
         | jotm wrote:
         | That _is_ (very limited) intelligence imo. It 's nothing more
         | than a very complex, ever increasing set of procedures plus a
         | huge amount of data and a fast processor.
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         | I mean, the more you know about something, the less "magic" it
         | seems. You know algorithms, the author may not. Pretty sure
         | someone from the 1700's would think a smartphone with some
         | personal assistant software on it was intelligent (even if
         | possessed), for example.
        
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